my baby is 2....wwaaahhh!!!

i can't believe my baby is 2 years old already! (well, now he's 2 and one month...slacking yet again on the blogging!!) since he's our last, everything seems so final and i've been thoroughly enjoying his baby-ness and at the same time soooo looking forward to getting rid of the crib, car seat, daipers(oohhh-yeeaaahhh), binky, sippies, etc.

he really is an easy-going, happy-go-lucky, lovey-dovey kid. he was worth every minute of anesthesia-free c-section!!! (yes, you read that right...)

here are some pics (again, from the harpers) of his mini-party we had.

here's tanner kicking back after a chocolate smorgasbord...

kaylee-girl cheese

dallin chowing down

emma and her winning toothless smile

tanner in all his cuteness

i love this smile...

tanner and his buddy jon (well, half of jon)...

lovin' his new boom box from jon and tara - though i could go without hearing queen's "we will rock you" for a while...Y

past due easter pics...

these are probably old news by now, but here some pics from easter. we spend the afternoon at the anderson's - eating lots of good food and searching for easter eggs in the yard. our camera is still out of commission, so these are courtesy of the harpers.

here's some cute easter-cheeks! we were laughing at tanner the whole time because his pants kept slipping down his keister.

can you tell tara loves tanner? (she took lots of pics of him!!)

me and the dallin-man. his curls are causing quite the swoons lately (i've been threatened bodily harm if i give him a hair cut...)

our deeeelish dinner. i can only take credit for the delectable ham in the background. the rest of the spread is the harper's and anderson's doing. (though to my defense...i did make a cheesecake that was pretty dang good...it was in the fridge)Y

yeah, yeah, yeah...

i know i've been slacking royally in the blogging and facebook department. i just started my cna class which is a pretty intense 4 credit class crammed into 4 weeks. that and our camera bit the dust and i can't get aaron to commit to a new one. also the girls on the run 5k event is coming up fast and i have a 2 year old who destroys everything in his path everytime i log on...speaking of which - gotta go!!! i really can't wait for summer!!!Y

our little sickie...

tanner has had a rough winter...to put it mildly. we all have had more than our share of illnesses this winter - i'm blaming it on the sub-zero temps that mankato stays in most of the winter. tanner however has had many ear infections, strep, pneumonia and a nearly constant cold/runny nose/cough. this past weekend aaron took him to the e.r. because i was sure he had pneumonia again (his breathing was clocked at 45-50 breaths/min.). turns out it was just a severe ear infection (which by the way, is not getting better - he had his "well" check today which ended up with more antibiotics, 2 shots, a referral to the ent and early intervention for speech therapy - gaaahhh!!)

anyway, last week (before the ear infection) he got hives all over his body...random!! they were gone within 24hrs. whatever!!!Y

wisconsin dells

okay - time to play some catch-up with blogging. does life ever get any less chaotic? i didn't think so...

here are a few pictures of our wisconsin dells trip with the mcpheters. we sayed at the chula vista resort and was the perfect place for a family getaway in the middle of winter. we didn't get very many pictures, probably because we were having too much fun. the kids loved the water park (okay, so did us grown-ups) and aaron and i especially enjoyed the free fancy-schmancy dinner we had with justin and katrina - not to mention the separate bedroom without kids...

like i said, i wish we took more pictures...but oh well. it was fun!Y

it's been a while...

i know, i know...feb. hasn't been a blogging month for me for some reason. maybe i just can't get myself out of this winter funk that is eating me alive!!! we just got a huge snowstorm yesterday - i just curled up with a book and read while the kids did what they wanted. so now today it's a clean-up-after-a-day-off day.

valentine's day was nice. the kids thought their little dollar hearts full of chocolate truffles were the cat's meow. aaron and i got to go to dinner (well, we tried to go out - but the only place in town is olive garden and the whole population shows up for that. so we settled for dinner to go - aaron got noodles and co. and i got jimmy john's) then we watched mall cop (hillarious!). he bought me "hunger games" (a book that i've been dying to get my hands on - he knows the way to a nerdy girl's heart!!) and i got him the "fireproof" dvd (the way to a marriage and family therapist's heart). pretty mellow v-day this year...

other than that, it's the same old stuff. girls on the run started (yippee!) but we didn't have enough girls for the number of sites we had, so we consolidated them into one site. i bowed out from coaching (we *only* had 16 volunteers!!) anyway, that's fine with me because life has been insanity and i don't think it's going to get better anytime soon. kaylee is in it though, and that was my whole purpose with getting involved. she loves, loves, loves it! she has to wear her bandana (just like her mom) and her running outfit and she gets out there and runs her little buns off!

in a few weeks we're going for a couple days to wisconsin dells (indoor water park capitol of the tundra here). we're meeting the mcpheters who are in chicago (and wis dells is the halfway point between here and there). should be fun.

i really, really, really can't wait for spring. oh, for it to be in the 40s or 50s would be great!!! i'll try to be patient...Y

emma's 7th birthday

well, emma-cheeks is now 7! we had a fun breakfast birthday party with some of her friends. unbeknownst to us, she had told her friends to wear their pajamas - which was fine - but half showed up in pjs and half in regular clothes. it was a lot of fun (minus kaylee's toe fiasco - see below). jon and tara even came and helped out a lot. she got lots of fun gifts (especially the coveted webkins that she has been begging for!) i think we will be doing the breakfast idea again - it was a success!

the next morning she got breakfast in bed, got to open more presents and picked hot dogs (yum...) for dinner. i think she enjoyed her wonderful weekend!Y